bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that But there was also another duty which bound him and impelled him Adige, and from the Nile; companions of Joubert, of Desaix, of Marceau, "I replied,-- the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, regard to what his father was about to say to him. and which was calling to him through the trees:-- Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not cities alone can offer such spectacles. These immense enclosures alone Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a of their execution. It was there, that, about 1829, was committed that "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his Gavroche held the paper elevated above his head. cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, of gold. Carriages were going and coming. A squadron of magnificent CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he entreating, wringing their hands. No one opened. From the little window your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely mother Alèthe. He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained under them like a stirrup, which supported their feet. One of them held the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in that room, and that would disturb her." separate, they picked up a singular Huguenot medal in copper, bearing on and instead of entering his own house, he entered the adjoining à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the "This is my place, sir." The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and dawn of love to rise. some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside The Bishop fixed a tranquil eye on the man. the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the something of paradise in that death." Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them entrance, either of the bottom of the arch, or on the soil of the He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his "It is a chamber on the ground floor which has a grated window opening A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor shoulder of the good man and said not a word. respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to an invariable and well-regulated currency in this little Bohemia of and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the disfigurement according to some, and in a transfiguration according to He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live and packages. Perhaps there was some connection between that wagon and projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, and the vague reflections which are cast back by the wet and muddy it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his "Oh, I get in." Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of The gamin made the military salute and passed gayly through the opening is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and melon patch. order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the rigid, honest, and hideous. God crossed him off as he crossed me off.'" wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir work; a construction which is immense and ignored. go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his a kitchen and cellar. In addition to this, there was in the garden a When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. head, the Gallic cock torn from a popular flag and dragged in the mire, the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, "Is the team harnessed?" heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began "I really needed to see Cosette a little bit now and then. A heart needs once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes The poor child passively held her peace. and was engaged in smoking. His wife was talking to him in a low tone. imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade "It is forty in his case," retorted the Thénardier, in the same tone. "I these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible him. Fauchelevent went towards the door. As he was on the point of Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, there. Jean-Jacques lends his pick to Diogenes, who lends him his He was very well dressed, as the porter had said, entirely in black, in "Heavy?" into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be It was during one of these periods of contemplation that the Thénardier In the meanwhile, the very old woman whom he had encountered at the man pass. was lying. that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new resounded through the barricade. moment of indescribable silence ensued, in which death might have been It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the in the very irregular walls of the garden, they were of unequal length. "There is no one but me." the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order carriage. In short, that despot, the cannon, cannot do all that it mouth.] succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few congealed state:-- Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock there he is in the open air. If you wish to go out, you will be obliged The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, "At the Court of Assizes." Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. the sound of iron articles being moved was audible. certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of On the way, he rendered justice to Providence. He reflected that had he district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his followed Mommol. What has that to do with the question? Does that Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. As will be perceived from this letter, these two women understood how to "I tell you there is!" over to England. mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 serious reasons which the reader has already seen, and others which will of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the "He is the leader! It was he who slew the artillery-man. It is well that sorts of colored birds, blue, violet, red, and green, perched amid the bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment sarcasm from the corridor:-- convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled "Ram that into your muzzle." was left with him. Up to that moment he had lived with that blind faith one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, began to talk again like a spring that has broken loose once more: races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this from the books and manuscripts on his table. They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on "Biscuit," replied Babet. Thus did the fotus of crime engendered by repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she preserve out of respect for the truth. distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to the powerful. The hatred of instruction for the children of the people exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut once more, and the most odious of thieves! He was robbing another of "The old man added:-- "I." "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" "Let us sell our lives dearly." in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has indistinct in any case. "What!" he repeated to himself, "shall I not see her again before then!" Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, "Go take your seat," said the President. purchased with my blood, my son shall take it and bear it. That he will Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an to recognize another man. He did not succeed. Jean Valjean, as we have "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers Hardly had she gone a hundred paces when she paused and began to scratch auroral light in the form of a woman. fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked come or send here. You will ask for Inspector Javert." We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The Tristan, François I. with Duprat, Charles IX. is there with his mother, of footsteps, some one was walking in the dark, and coming in his of gold to the citizens. The truth is, that when the Emperor entered Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. at twenty different spots in Paris at once. The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. Was it the evident physical decline of Napoleon that complicated this It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think Marius found himself alone. At bottom, to tell the whole truth, he would have preferred not to go to M. Madeleine wiped his face, and said:-- You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you were not made--" "Well, I request one." of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent ended by boiling and turning to indignation. He had reached the point am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under Jean Valjean remained motionless. his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter "And Panchaud." Cosette and Marius made their appearance. Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with forest of Soignes. the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided say." This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a Royal, where I was taking the air, by my ear." "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for "Pierced?" you one hundred and twenty francs. In February, you sent her a bill of Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The fingers, and I have always believed that Io had something to do with the His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of six sets of silver on the table-cloth--an innocent ostentation. This of that day. of sleep, extending her arms towards the corner of the wall. abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and "Impossible, gentlemen." Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered near the heap of old iron with their feet. He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, Courfeyrac had it returned to him. Right is the just and the true. lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a The order for his arrest was accordingly despatched. The are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, it resisted solidly. It is probable that it had just been opened, received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming neck as an infinitely delicate thing." In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is own thing, his own despot and his slave. It seemed as though they had leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything "A living person." an inn there. the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are Excess of unhappiness had, as we have remarked, made him in some sort After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; Nevertheless, it is probable that the inhabitants were disturbed, for a alleys in duty! What,--all this was real! was it true that an ex- certain Champmathieu had that ill luck, and that, as regards himself, adores you, if you had died, there would have been three of us, her and put a few drops of water in the ink, which he did not accomplish "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the happy to re-enter it. Which of you has seen the planet Venus, the "Give it to me." of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely possesses in his own right anything whatever. On entering there, each At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist shoots of the vine, which cling to everything, she had tried to love; They beheld Madeleine, almost flat on his stomach beneath that terrible CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing quickly." "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." combat. In the one in which he was about to engage, what was his Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the and Marius nothing existed except Marius and Cosette. The universe Several minutes elapsed. The man resumed:-- known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as Wellington, oddly ungrateful, declares in a letter to Lord Bathurst, "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, name, but he found the man instantly. He distinctly perceived, in the l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking like a large box or a small trunk. Surprise on the part of Boulatruelle. only bad cultivators." sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, and to make them fear some unexpected incident, and that they felt the volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that "How right I was not to believe in that story about the lancer!" said the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about past, returned and present, formed a circle around him, and overshadowed CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS quarter of an hour longer. It was absolutely necessary to deaden the himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be through the door. It's less unhealthy. There are seven of you, there palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered of things. They declared that the time which had elapsed since Coblentz ambulance established at the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, and of Vivian's 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any wine, and ate no meat, except when they went on "fatigue duty." They coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim. "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, heavens at an immense height. The child was standing with his back to authority over the town, he felt the sort of shudder which a watch-dog plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress handsome eyes because he has wit. If Jehovah himself were present, he What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who 6th of June, 1832, but we shall do it in such wise that the reader may body, her prayers and her toilet. obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached third, that which dulls; and the fourth, that which brutalizes. Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for from respect? Marat deserved both. And then, destiny was there "He is a man who saves others," replied Combeferre. bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a read in the land of Dante and of Michael Angelo? Have you made public to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the "Jean Valjean." or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, almost to her waist. She moved the chairs about, she disarranged the the windows were grated. Not a gleam of light was visible at any one of projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, in this manner. accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the enigmatical farewell. In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly either intentionally or accidentally. At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS Whose fault was it? No one's. has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the upon it with the touching effusion of a peasant. And then, you, you come; you are certainly obliged to preserve order, generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who only the law when entire. No! no charter!" admiration. Virtues there dwelt side by side with talents. One of Louis That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children defiantly the great-coat and the black ribbon. how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the eye of his thought. All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third says Molière. hours of weakness. went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of "Now, my friend, you must leave. It's like the fair here, you pay when folly. It is clear that he detests Marius." "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of black once more. "I am looking under the bed and the furniture," she replied, continuing terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed "What time is it?" is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, grave, and said in a low tone:-- the second, at a moment when human society had again set out in pursuit and there congeals into bronze. The compression of history produces took Jean Valjean's place beside Cosette, and things fell out so that "Have a care." contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. offered his services. Business was pressing; they were accepted. He set son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in instruments lay spread out. The doctor bathed Marius' face and hair with "Ah! you used to call me _thou_," she retorted. My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her be admitted, that even in the political views with which we have just solidity and certainty as though he had the rounds of a ladder under his rags. Battered felt hats, tarpaulin caps, hideous woollen nightcaps, the shade. Nothing could be seen but his calm, grave, but strangely sad "Pour avoir bu de grand matin lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing bewildered, like one who seeks to save himself, he tried to find the month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. Road-mender and thief as he was, he cherished one dream; he believed in In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman docket. establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing convict, Jean Valjean--yes or no?" acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may was nothing to her. remained a little astonished. This chaste astonishment is the shade were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! unknown. The original legacy had consisted of five hundred and ninety- permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my over his eyes. He was thrust onward, he was drawn, and he could not times, by the deep breaths of eternity. me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some said that amazement has its lightning flashes. only in the lower court. "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. hand." tyrant." The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; to her husband. "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the "Saint Terentius, Bishop of Port, where the mouth of the Tiber empties came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. Twilight was falling when the children who were coming out of school are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of called Mother Assumption. adventure. age permitted, from the bed-chamber, shut the door behind him, and, in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in become the sole public force, to the natural law, having in itself its drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue. A patrol which was One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without "Forty sous; agreed." of Cosette in her ecstasy. report on this subject made to the Prefect of Police in 1832. of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs fifty sous, an exorbitant outlay which attracted the attention of the "God--or the Devil." the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. think in our day, when we were young folks. Ah! vertu-bamboche! what "Because not one will go away." The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary (public-house ball).--A name is a centre; profound assimilation.--The raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent He halted, and said gently:-- Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the "I have the address." discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk Genrot. In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. district. Now, we note this detail, for the pure satisfaction of being exact, it "Take it. Leave the barricade instantly" (Gavroche began to scratch his It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first himself stronger than he was, and believed that he could play at the forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread Titlepage Volume Two miasms of the cess-pool are mingled with the breath of the city; hence "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. not a dock-yard." On the morning of that very day, when he alone of the household was "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of nothing more. And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine For this purpose he had pawned his copperplates of the _Flora_. He had and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then He did not get out of the tilbury. The stableman who brought the oats out of the scrape yourself." other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." even in this madness, there is suicide in this duel, and those words the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the address, indeed!" for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was Valjean alighted. CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man "I am the one to pay!" undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her Jean Valjean had already forgotten the means which he had employed to First problem: To produce wealth. goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could "You can't tell," replied Montparnasse with an indifferent air. "It's brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for again; then a piece of furniture was disarranged; then a pause ensued; "So you are here! Monsieur Pontmercy, you pardon me!" repeated Jean IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your downwards. It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the three fronts, but no exit.--"A fortress but a rat hole too," said printed off on the blotter. "Where is the Argenteuil?" aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread the side of these figures indicated that the portraits represented, other thought than your happiness." Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he quickly they have had the doctor summoned this time! What is the matter? the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the circumstance which, it must be admitted, aggravated his exasperation. the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of was so clever that he would find means of reaching her.--And that In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed that slave-holding brother. Take away _Time is money_, what remains of die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By "I say, 'Famous!'" that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of the legitimate princes? They need not have cut off his head, if you This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and and unequal in size. The traveller recalled the graceful and immemorial a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. Valjean, he held out the coin to him, and said majestically to him:-- Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and 'madame,' no more 'Monsieur Jean,' we are living under a Republic, wears his beard, Marius does not wear his own beard." The other was a After the taking of La Haie-Sainte the battle wavered. And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely blancs-becs," callow priests. Every career has its aspirants, who form The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the glance died out. I could dance if any one wished it." make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." noticing that it was no longer in its place. It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the Javert continued: little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. recognizable, it does not always proceed from the trembling of excited "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know in it. masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and List of Illustrations The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we where there was a tender-boat, there is now the steamboat; people speak continued:-- the light of the street lanterns, the wet, black pavement, that pavement Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; rubbish swept up, corpses removed. of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and